My car feels as the s2k's I've driven. Stitch welding the doorjamb and A pillar is something I want to do eventually. It's not so bad if you've got a spot welder, and a powered wire brush. I did roll bar and frame rails at the same time, and felt the ride improve significantly on the highway, much reduced cowl shake, The fender braces nearly eliminate cowl shake, and improve the ride quality a little, and the turn in quickness a lot. Front fsb improved stability in sweepers significantly.

I've driven a friend's car, same car with just roll bar. You can actually feel a difference from it, car is a little more tail happy.

I`ve ordered end-links and sway bar brace kit from Racing Beat. If I like the upgrade, I might buy new sways as well. The car is very neutral and easy to drive at the current setup. How can I keep the neutral turn in with new sways? I guess I would have to buy the RB front sway and see what happens

Do you have any suspension work? Plan on it? If so, I'd hold off on the sway bars. Getting neutral handling, is more reliant on alignment. Reason for holding off on sways, is that stiffer ones basically make your suspension less independent on that end, and actually reduces grip. So when fighting body roll, you want to stiffen springs/shocks first.

With alignment, you want a little more negative camber up front than in the rear, and if the car is a bit tail happy at times, a little toe in in the rear (not exceeding 0.15 degrees, over that and it gets frightening at highway speeds, especially on grooved roads). Some people like a little toe out up front for more immediate turn in, but you'll chew up tires driving with that on the streets.

I have the standard V-Maxx Xxtreme kit. I plan to start with a mild sway setup, and then adjust my way into hell.

The suspension is really good right meow, both on road and on track. So I am guessing the tubular front sway from RacingBeat should do the trick.

I am running a pretty natural alignment at the moment, and I am by far the fastest with stock power. But at some point I will start experimenting. I found that tire pressure is really critical on the R888`s as well! So much to learn yo

Well, I've only been autocrossing on UHP street tires, so not sure how car will be on track with race rubber. But for me with just roll bar and frame rails, car was really tail happy. Adding on the fender braces, it was still tail happy, but turn in was noticeably quicker. Adding in 1.125" rb front sway made the car very neutral, and it was most noticeable in sweepers. As in where before I'd have to make small correction to hold the line, meow it'll take a set and hold it. I'm using stock rear sway, but msm rear sway is 14mm. If you don't already have a little toe in dialed in on the rear, do so, it really makes the car power out of corners more controllable.

I went to an autocross, track day kinda thing before the winter. I found the car to behave quite differently on a small track. Rapid transitions and lots of corrections. I had the best time of the day, but when I went all out I managed to flip the last cone. My time was two seconds faster than the previous runs, but I didn`t feel like I was in complete control of the car.

The body has too much movement as it is meow, but the movement also seem to help a lot in the corners as the camber increases. Kinda hard to describe. I am worried that if I stiffen up the suspension with new springs, or even new coilovers, I would ruin the good handling it has meow. It feels a bit wobbly in the slalom as the weight has to shift back and forth, but in the corners it just sticks to the road.

I am a bit torn between buying a new set of coilovers with 9k/6k ratio or new springs and roll bars. I currently have a VMaxx XXtreme coilover set with stock springs and FM sells a "track-pack" for these.

I am a bit clueless. I want to avoid buying my third coilover setup for the car, but on the other hand I really want to beat my time by at least three seconds this year.

Teejay187 wrote:I went to an autocross, track day kinda thing before the winter. I found the car to behave quite differently on a small track. Rapid transitions and lots of corrections. I had the best time of the day, but when I went all out I managed to flip the last cone. My time was two seconds faster than the previous runs, but I didn`t feel like I was in complete control of the car.

The body has too much movement as it is meow, but the movement also seem to help a lot in the corners as the camber increases. Kinda hard to describe. I am worried that if I stiffen up the suspension with new springs, or even new coilovers, I would ruin the good handling it has meow. It feels a bit wobbly in the slalom as the weight has to shift back and forth, but in the corners it just sticks to the road.

I am a bit torn between buying a new set of coilovers with 9k/6k ratio or new springs and roll bars. I currently have a VMaxx XXtreme coilover set with stock springs and FM sells a "track-pack" for these.

I am a bit clueless. I want to avoid buying my third coilover setup for the car, but on the other hand I really want to beat my time by at least three seconds this year.

PLZ HALP. I R NAB

When fighting body roll stiffer srpings first, avoid stiff sway bars. Reason being sway bars actually reduce grip on the end they're installed on by making the suspension less independent. It's better to use sway bars as a tuning tool.

Teejay187 wrote:Seems like quality to me. I see them on Yahoo from time to time to a good price. I'll jump on a deal soon!

What's a good price? Seems like since you run fm vmaxx currently, you've got no problems running, and shipping American products. Personally, I think the American products are the most well developed on this platform currently. We've got vendors who raced these things more, and at higher levels of motorsports than most of the world.

Are you referring to FCM? Personally around 2 grand is a bit steep since the Norwegian currency is 25% lower than it used to be 5 months ago. also I need to pay 25% import taxes. That equals half of my salary.

A good price would be 1500-1800 delivered.

I have researched revalving Konis, but I have no guide to get a good result. I want this to be the last time I buy coilovers for a while, but ending up paying over 3,5 grand is way too much.

What are my options then? I feel that Tein, Vmaxx, K-sport etc are not made specifically for the Miata and has obvious flaws in terms of damping and spring rate.

Seems like I might read some more on the topic. Getting some Konis/Bilsteins revalved and get the other parts myself might be an idea. I need to find someone to do the relvalve job, and pick up some swift springs :)

My local friend just threw some godspeed coils with those same spring rates on his NA. That car is an oversteer monster without even getting to the limit. Car was straight up frightening in the rain.The rear definitely feels too stiff, but shitty coils might play a role too. Same guy has a msm with ohlins in 9/6

The Maruhas have been on for about 700 miles meow. They are as firm and sharp as I could ever hope for. The specific spring rate is 8/6. They are very neutral, but with a slight hint of understeer. I plan to get a beefier sway up front to see how it works.